Practical Business Python

Taking care of business, one python script at a time


Tue 02 January 2018

Interactive Visualization of Australian Wine Ratings

Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles   

Over on Kaggle, there is an interesting data set of over 130K wine reviews that have been scraped and pulled together into a single file. I thought this data set would be really useful for showing how to build an interactive visualization using Bokeh. This article will walk through how to build a Bokeh application that has good examples of many of its features. The app itself is really helpful and I had a lot of fun exploring this data set using the visuals. Additionally, this application shows the power of Bokeh and it should give you some ideas as to how you could use it in your own projects. Let’s get started by exploring the “rich, smokey flavors with a hint of oak, tea and maple” that are embedded in this data set.

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Tue 20 January 2015

Overview of Python Visualization Tools

Posted by Chris Moffitt in articles   

In the python world, there are multiple options for visualizing your data. Because of this variety, it can be really challenging to figure out which one to use when. This article contains a sample of some of the more popular ones and illustrates how to use them to create a simple bar chart. I will create examples of plotting data with: Pandas, Seaborn, ggplot, Bokeh, pygal and Plotly.

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